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Consider the money pit known as SHIN Crown Corporation (Saskatchewan Health Information Network) |
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The government created SHIN with the supposed intention of improving the inefficiencies in our healthcare system and saving the taxpayer from higher healthcare costs. |
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MONTREAL, July 24 /CNW/ - MediSolution Ltd. (TSX:MSH), a leading Canadian healthcare information technology company, announced today the results for its year ended March 31, 2002. Revenue for the fiscal 2002 year was $39.0 million compared to $62.7 million in fiscal 2001. The company experienced losses from continuing operations of $9.6 million before depreciation and amortization of fixed assets and technology, the amortization and write-off of goodwill, special and restructuring charges and other non-operating items. The company reported a net loss of $50.5 million, or $1.34 per share for the year ended March 31, 2002 after recording losses of $13.0 million from discontinued operations. This compares to net earnings of $3.4 million, or $0.10 per share in fiscal 2001 |
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What will Sask Health do when Medi Solutions fails and there is no longer support for its products? |
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How does this new "behind the scenes" move toward (yet another American IT provider - remember DigiCare - (http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/desam/paper-SHIN.htm) relate to the ongoing fiasco at Land Titles and multi- million dollar over run of dollars there? |
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It is true that SHIN has setup e-mail between some health facilities and a certain level of telehealth capability with several northern facilities but the fact remains that they spent far more than was needed, they have been at it for at least 6 years and the patient management software that has been introduced to several facilities was simply purchased from commercial software providers with the SHIN Crown Corporation acting as middlemen. |
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Perhaps the NDP plan to bring this American based company onboard to repair all the damage that they have done over the last five to six years or perhaps they are planning to blame them for all the problems after another year or so passes? |
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It seems remarkable to me that the NDP have become so determined that technology is the answer to the taxpayers problems here in Saskatchewan that they have created the Information Services and Technology Crown Corporation to primarily bring the Land Titles Registry into the digital age but they go on to try and convince voters that - |
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" the corporation will be in a position, because of its ability to deliver services and information securely and efficiently over the Internet, to partner with other companies and government organizations to deliver an array of services to customers." |
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Who are they trying to convince? the voters or themselves? Find their mandate here - http://www.isc-online.ca/isc_public/scripts/isc.asp?cfgpage=ABOUT |
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In addition, to the SHIN Crown Corporation we have IT departments in all the other crowns including SaskTel which ultimately ended up hosting the SHIN system of health records - which is another whole story involving questionable privacy legislation and our digital health records - yes folks I do believe that your personal and private health records are being hosted on the SaskTel server! |
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In any case voters may want to take a look at this and the related items found here at Ensign. |
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From my viewpoint the NDP appear to have paid hundreds of millions of good hard earned tax dollars to bring a perfectly good working system of healthcare and land titles in the digital age while ignoring the fact that voters, patients and the staff of these services are being starved out of the province and cheated out of basic front line service in the name of progress. It would also appear that they are positioning themselves to repeat the same mistake again in the name of efficiency and improving the system! |
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Perhaps they intend put even great Information Technology expenses into motion before they lose the next election in the hope that Sask Party will look bad while dealing with the problem and only last for one political term? |
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I just wish I had the resources afforded the Leader Post, Star Phoenix or Canada.Com so I could offer your readers a clearer and broader picture of what seems to be total confusion, waste and mismanagement. |
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Mandryk, Murray, Gov't jobs may go south, October 24, 2002, Regina Leader Post |
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deSantis, Mario, Corporate Big Brother, November 1, 2000, Ensign |
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Electronic Data Systems, Plano, Texas, fact sheet |
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Perez, Juan Carlos, EDS defends accounting practices, February 13, 2002, IDG Ne3ws Service |
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Netwrok & Client Server EDS/Enron 1991-Present |
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Interesting work experience found in the resume of Jennifer Lowry. Ms. Lowry worked for EDS at Enron in the Houston office. She explains the work she did for Enron as an EDS employee. |
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